In our quest to find Japanese cars that are able to keep up or pass the nice German pieces of engineering, we already tested the Lexus IS250/350 and the Honda S2000... but we were still looking for a family car/estate to achieve that target. There are plenty of Japanese alternatives, but they were not really up to standard when compared to Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi. The model we were able to test is the automatic version with Subaru's SI Drive (more on that later) that develops 260bhp and 343Nm out of a 4 cylinder 2.0L DOHC engine.
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